Depends on the fighter and the style and strategy of the fighter. I still see some fighters today starting fast in the first round. Errol Spence fights from 1 to 12. But some fighters need time to figure out their opponent and I don't have a problem with that.
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I don't think it ever started. I believe it to be a natural instinct. It is what 90% of fighters would do anyway.
When it became a part of boxing culture, lore and jargon, I cannot say. Maybe it has increased over our period and become almost official, but I dunno. I think you could easily trace it back to the beginning of MQ rules, if not the stone age.
A journalist says it, a cautious trainer tells his fighter to take it easy and feel him out, broadcasters grab it because it is short and it excuses and explains a temporary lack of action, the public grabs it. Then popular lore. Dunphy said it many times. I have heard him. Fighters listen to the radio too. He was 1950's I think.
The human heart and instinct say it too. Don't get KO'd right away. But it depends on style. I doubt if you tell a mike Tyson to go out there and box and feel him out. Shy boxers fight like it is the first round all the time anyway. There's the rub.
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